Data Trust: Architecture vs. Policy
Category: BlogHow much of data trust can tools actually solve? It’s a question EMA’s Herb Blecher keep encountering, and the market isn’t structured to answer. Observability, quality, and governance are converging into a shared architectural layer, and the tooling is genuinely better. However, organizations that struggle with trust don’t always lack tools; they have a gap between what their policies say and what their infrastructure enforces. No amount of platform consolidation can close that gap on its own.
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